Smart Home & Dialog Systems 2017

Home automation is closely related to the Internet of Things (IoT). Domotics (domestic robotics) is related to both home automation and domestic robots. Steve Prior (@sprior) is a good person to ask about dialog systems in smart homes in general, and about his smarthome.geekster.com in particular.

Evolution of Smart Homes for the Elderly
B Kon, A Lam, J Chan – … of the 26th International Conference on World …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Dialog system with elderly who can respond with 20 different RFID cards – good … Though research in health monitoring systems in smart homes has developed significantly, nutrition-based smart technologies have been underrepresented in smart home environments …

Cassandra smart-home system description
SD Dumitrescu – Speech Technology and Human-Computer …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This paper presents the architecture and technologies used to develop a voice controlled system for home automation … smart device (eg a WiFi enabled smart watch than can run the smart home control app … A scenario is the equivalent of a frame in frame-based dialogue system …

SASI: perspectives for a socio-affectively intelligent HRI dialog system
Y Sasa, V Aubergé – 1st Workshop on “Behavior, Emotion and …, 2017 – hal.inria.fr
… and the error recovery phenomenon, it might be relevant to have a robot feedback and a Smart Home automation activity incrementally … PERSPECTIVES: SASI – HRI DIALOG SYSTEM This first attempt of an ASR prototype aim was to recognise the “relation” between interlocutors …

Interaction Model for Incremental Information Presentation
B Carlmeyer, M Chromik, B Wrede – Proceedings of the 5th International …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… INTRODUCTION AND RELATED WORK Smart homes are one of the most emergent research fields and … The smart home scenario is ideal for providing us with a richly equipped sensori-motor … The dialog processing pipeline is a combination of two dialog systems presented in [2 …

Hyperarticulation of Corrections in Multilingual Dialogue Systems
I Kraljevski, D Hirschfeld – Proc. Interspeech 2017, 2017 – researchgate.net
… The objective is to assess the effort for adaptation of a multilingual dialogue system from the aspect of recovery strategies … containing audio-visual data, as well as to find the answer to how speakers of different native languages interact with an intelligent smart-home system, we …

“… If I Had but the Time and You Had but the Brain…”: Computer-Centered Computing
JNA Brown, AJ Fercher, G Leitner – … Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home, 2017 – Springer
… go on to stress that since smart homes promise to improve comfort, leisure and safety the … sound detection and classification (n = 13) that took place in the Health Smart Home in Grenoble … mention that, in order to improve the robustness of their automated dialog system, they are …

Conversational/Multiturn Question Understanding
G Ren, M Malik, X Ni, Q Ke, N Bhide – scai.info
… such as laptops and phones, the user can easily navigate through and explore this list, but on voice only experiences or experiences with limited screen space, such as per- sonal assistants and smart home devices, it … Re- inforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems …

The Cognitive Service Robotics Apartment
S Wrede, C Leichsenring, P Holthaus, T Hermann… – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… side the lab are: what kind of interfaces are best suited to enable specific functions of a smart home or mo … services can be catego- rized into four different stacks: audio & dialog, video & recognition, ambient displays, and home automation … “How to Address Smart Homes with a …

Towards Learning Transferable Conversational Skills using Multi-dimensional Dialogue Modelling
S Keizer, V Rieser – Proc. SEMDIAL 2017 (SaarDial) Workshop on …, 2017 – isca-speech.org
… We will extend our dialogue manager to support a wider range of dialogue act combinations, and are building an end-to-end system for the restaurant and smart home domains, in order to demonstrate our results on real data and across domains …

Multimodal breathiness in interaction: from breathy voice quality to global breathy “body behavior quality”
L Tsvetanova, V Aubergé, Y Sasa – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… In this study, elderly subjects were invited to use a smart home control robot to carry out … modify the form of the commands from the imposed list of home automation commands as … The first works in this direction have been implemented in the robot’s dialog system called SARSI …

Foodie fooderson a conversational agent for the smart kitchen
P Angara, M Jiménez, K Agarwal, H Jain… – Proceedings of the …, 2017 – migueljimenez.co
… For example, in a home automation scenario, it is easier to say “Siri, turn on the lights,” than opening up an application and pressing a few … Song, Y., Yan, R., Li, X., Zhao, D., and Zhang, M. Two are better than one: An ensemble of retrieval-and generation-based dialog systems …

MAIoT-An IoT Architecture with Reasoning and Dialogue Capability
JC Nieves, D Andrade, E Guerrero – Applications for Future Internet, 2017 – Springer
… For instance, IoT platforms have been developed in order to build up the so called smart homes which aim to improve the experiences of … To formalize our dialogue system, we follow the dialogue style introduced by [2, 6], in which three types of moves are allowed: open, assert …

Learnability Through Adaptive Discovery Tools in Voice User Interfaces
A Furqan, C Myers, J Zhu – Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Task management and home automation have recently featured a popular application domain for VUIs like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, but no existing systems has ADTs … From novice to expert: the effect of tutorials on user expertise with spoken dialogue systems …

Multimodal Fusion and Fission within the W3C MMI Architectural Pattern
D Schnelle-Walka, C Duarte, S Radomski – Multimodal Interaction with …, 2017 – Springer
… High-level architecture of a multimodal dialog system and available W3C standards [24 … In this chapter, we will, based on actual applications in the smart home context (eg, [23]), elaborate on different approaches to integrate today’s proposals, as detailed in the following sections …

Parental control reversed: Using ADR for designing a low-cost monitoring system for elderly
T Mettler, M Bächle, S Daurer, A Judt – 2017 – aisel.aisnet.org
… system of the Raspberry Pi was unproblematic, a wider opening of the architecture of the iCare Bot, so that it can easily be integrated in a smart home environment with other components, presented a major difficulty. Although open standards for home automation, like openHAB …

Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home: Hunting the SNARK
JNA Brown, AJ Fercher, G Leitner – 2017 – Springer
… This chapter addresses the historical developments of smart environments in general and smart homes in particular, referring to first attempts considered as smart, eg from … Keywords Evolution 4 Smart home 4 Wise home 4 Domotics 4 HCI 4 History of home automation …

High performance computing for cyber physical social systems by using evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm
GG Wang, X Cai, Z Cui, G Min… – IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Three interface types are considered, including spoken dialog system, a graphical interface and a live … which enables the integration of heterogeneous devices in smart home leveraging web … and collaboration mechanism for various devices under home automation environment …

Causes of Psychological Reactance in Human-Computer Interaction: A Literature Review and Survey
P Ehrenbrink, S Prezenski – … of the European Conference on Cognitive …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… [6]. They conducted and experiment where participants had to interact with a smart home system via a spoken dialogue system … among those ten stud- ies (see Table 1). The domains in which the studies were performed ranged from emails to smart homes and artificial …

Discovery and Registration: Finding and Integrating Components into Dynamic Systems
BH Rodríguez, JC Moissinac – Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards, 2017 – Springer
… In a context in where many of these technologies existed as silos (communication modules, mobile, enterprise software, specific single function hardware, home automation, etc.) now they are becoming integrated and taking shape in a new class of solutions enabled through …

Multimodal HCI: exploratory studies on effects of first impression and single modality ratings in retrospective evaluation
B Weiss, I Wechsung, S Hillmann, S Möller – Journal on Multimodal User …, 2017 – Springer
… After that, the participants were told to try out a new speech-dialog system in the demonstration hall. This systems provides information on research projects of the institution … a main screen, b TV control, c EPG screen. 8 Experiment Domestic: multimodal smart home …

Extensible multimodal annotation for intelligent interactive systems
M Johnston – Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards, 2017 – Springer
… easier and more effective for users to interact with applications and services, whether on mobile devices, or in smart homes or cars … In recent years, driven by the widespread availability of mobile devices, in-car systems, and smart home technologies with touch screens, cameras …

Natural Language Input for In-Car Spoken Dialog Systems: How Natural is Natural?
P Braunger, W Maier – Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… In this sense, spoken dialog systems always make use of natural lan- guage … who found that individual differ- ences in speaker behavior are significant and by Möller (2008) who found that younger users dif- fer from older users in the way they speak with a smart-home system …

Interactive Hesitation Synthesis and Its Evaluation
S Betz, B Carlmeyer, P Wagner, B Wrede – 2017 – pub.uni-bielefeld.de
… To develop conversational 159 dialogue systems, various approaches have been proposed, with incremental processing, with 160 various forms and functions of … of self-interruptions as a strategy to regain the visual 176 attention of distracted users in a smart-home setting with a …

Simulating empathic behavior in a social assistive robot
B De Carolis, S Ferilli, G Palestra – Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2017 – Springer
… aldebaran-robotics.com), that is able to act as a natural and social interface between the user and the smart home environment, by … Since, at present, statistically significant on-field evaluation was not feasible, due to the lack of enough smart homes equipped with social robots …

Analyzing and Implementation of Speech Recognition as Advanced Biometric System
DG Jagdev, T Singh – at 6th International Conference on …, 2017 – data.conferenceworld.in
… applications and voice command in smartphones, to home automation. • One can also use speech recognition software in homes … key part of spoken dialogue systems. • People can communicate with a speech recognizer using a phone, or by wearing a pin-on microphone …

Materializing the Promises of Cognitive IoT: How Cognitive Buildings are Shaping the Way
J Ploennigs, A Ba, M Barry – IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The exploitation of IoT in the context of Smart Home has been demonstrated in [8], where the authors present an innovative smart home system that enables emotion detection … So, the dialog system identifies: ”What was Page 7. 2327-4662 (c) 2017 IEEE …

User query behaviour in different task types in a spoken language vs. textual interface: a Wizard of Oz experiment.
XJ Yuan, N Sa – Information Research, 2017 – search.ebscohost.com
… Litman and Silliman (2004) introduced a spoken language dialogue system called ITSPOKE, in which they tried to utilize speech instead of text-based dialogue tutoring … 2013) conducted a similar study in which they performed a usability testing of a new smart home system with …

EchoBot: Facilitating Data Collection for Robot Learning with the Amazon Echo
R Kapadia, S Staszak, L Jian, K Goldberg – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… are guided through the performance of the desired motion [5]. The studies in [2, 43] rely on dialogue systems that enable subjects to provide speech commands to effectively control the collection of kinesthetic demonstrations. We use a commercial home automation system as …

CASSANDRA: A multipurpose configurable voice-enabled human-computer-interface
T Boro?, SD Dumitrescu, S Pipa – … of the Software Demonstrations of the …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… A scenario is the equivalent of a frame in frame- based dialogue systems … The KB was built using Wikipedia for Romanian and English. Scenario 2 is a home automation system that allows the user to control home appliances using a natural voice interface …

Identification and distance estimation of users and objects by means of electronic beacons in social robotics
F Alonso-Martín, A Castro-González, M Malfaz… – Expert Systems with …, 2017 – Elsevier
… illustrates the benefits of EBs in social robotics using two examples: a robot dialog system that uses … used ZigBee to develop an indoor tracking system of people for smart homes (Jin, Yu, Lai … It was intended for home automation, interconnecting all devices of an intelligent house …

The Communicative Activity of Making Suggestions as an Interactional Process: Towards a Dialog Model for HAI
C Opfermann, K Pitsch, R Yaghoubzadeh… – Proceedings of the 5th …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… like to.” or “Yes I would go there”, see verbal design of suggestion turn (III-1) in Figure 3). Besides such technically manageable user responses, other types of user responses occur that might constitute greater challenges for an autonomous spoken dialog system (SDS) with …

Artificial Intelligence in Bio-Medical Domain
M Salman, AW Ahmed, OA Khan… – Artificial …, 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… Demonstrator to AI research is that physicians and therefore the computer can interact in disrupted communication and dialogue, system ceaselessly being … Section II shows the glimpses of smart home mechanism with different aspects being evolved in smart healthcare home …

Using Contextual Knowledge to Resume Human-Agent Conversations when Programming the Intelligence of Smart Environments
A Leonidis, M Antona, C Stephanidis – ceur-ws.org
… and whether it fulfils its goals, a user-based study is planned to take place in the near future in a smart home setup located in … 18. Williams, JD et al.: Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Mi- crosoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) …

Comparing Priming Effects of Visual and Textual Task Representations
P Ehrenbrink, S Hillmann – researchgate.net
… to the task of collecting (a larger number of) suitable utterances that have to be understood by a spoken dialogue system in the … we aim at getting a representative overview of verbal commands that our target population would use to trigger an action in a smart home environment …

A Review of Cognitive Psychology Applied in Robotics
Y Lianqing – Advances in Intelligent Systems and Interactive …, 2017 – books.google.com
… With the rapid development of network, wearable devices and smart home, and also the pressures of the aged providing and nursing, household and nursing robot will occur … In: Proceedings of the Kloster Irsee Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems, pp …

A Review of Cognitive Psychology Applied in Robotics
H Qin, T Yun, W Yujin, W Changlin… – … Conference on Intelligent …, 2017 – Springer
… With the rapid development of network, wearable devices and smart home, and also the pressures of the aged providing and nursing, household and nursing robot will occur … In: Proceedings of the Kloster Irsee Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialogue Systems, pp …

DICE-R: defining human-robot interaction with composite events
J Van den Bergh, K Luyten – … of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… MultiML was created for the JAST [12] human- robot dialog system … Event-condition-action (ECA) rules are common to com- bine several services in various settings, including home automation, webservices etc., but they are also very suitable for usage in human-robot …

Automatic Speech Recognition Adaptation to the IoT Domain Dialogue System
M Zembrzuski, H Jeon, J Marhula, K Beksa… – … on Methodologies for …, 2017 – Springer
… particularly by [6]. Additionally, within the area of recognition and understanding of various proficiency-level speakers by the dialogue system, our approach … Our study concentrates on the IoT within a smart home solution which allows the user to interact with a dialogue agent …

Using acoustic paralinguistic information to assess the interaction quality in speech-based systems for elderly users
H Pérez-Espinosa, J Martínez-Miranda… – International Journal of …, 2017 – Elsevier
… to study the differences between how younger and older users talk to a spoken dialogue system, and the effects of the help prompts provided by the system. The language of this corpus is German. The authors obtained spoken interactions between a smart home system and …

Towards the Implementation of an Intelligent Software Agent for the Elderly
AHF Dinevari – 2017 – era.library.ualberta.ca
… extensive support. However, the tech companies and researchers are working on the idea of smart homes to replace traditional systems. Smart homes are … the elderly interact with the environment around them [7]. Smart homes for …

Multimodal Interface for Elderly People
IA Awada, I Mocanu, AM Florea… – Control Systems and …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The smart home sensors are used to monitor and automate the home environment … Developing a voice module that dialog system, which is composed of five main parts: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Dialog Management module …

Chatbots As A Mean To Motivate Behavior Change: How To Inspire Pro-Environmental Attitude with Chatbot Interfaces
J Åberg – 2017 – diva-portal.org
… Starting in the 1960’s with text-based dialogue systems for questions and answers, and chatbots that simulated natural conversations [6]. Voice-based systems began to appear in the late 1980’s and spoken dialog technology became a key area of research within the speech …

Affective interface–toward a machine that exhibits its state emotionally
H Lu – 2017 – ecommons.usask.ca
Page 1. AFFECTIVE INTERFACE – TOWARD A MACHINE THAT EXHIBITS ITS STATE EMOTIONALLY A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Science …

Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users
R Yaghoubzadeh, S Kopp – Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… omit those technologies that rely on physical support or that use non-interactive spo- ken control (keyword commands for smart homes etc … For a comparison of the present work to exist- ing approaches and implementations of dialogue systems, we will consider the following taxo …

GMM-based speaker age and gender classification in Czech and Slovak
J P?ibil, A P?ibilová, J Matoušek – Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2017 – degruyter.com
… dialogue system might change speed of its speech synthesis according to the identified user’s age [3]. The interactive voice response system can also select an appropriate background music played while waiting for an operator [4]. Assisted living and smart home systems can …

The rise of bots: A survey of conversational interfaces, patterns, and paradigms
LC Klopfenstein, S Delpriori, S Malatini… – Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Dialog Systems (SDS) started drawing the attention of aca- demics and the industry [22] … it brings the Internet of Things (IoT) closer to everyday life and it can be integrated with different other devices and services, especially in regard to home automation and entertainment …

Phoneme Set Design for Second Language Speech Recognition
X Wang – 2017 – researchgate.net
… an event to the calendar, set temperature of thermostat, stream customers’ favourite song, going so far as to build in smart home capabilities … applications, such as question- answering systems and spoken dialogue systems. 1.2 The Problem …

What can i help you with?: infrequent users’ experiences of intelligent personal assistants
BR Cowan, N Pantidi, D Coyle, K Morrissey… – Proceedings of the 19th …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Ultimately, we believe enhanced user experiences and widespread adoption is an achievable target. This paper aims to support this goal. RELATED WORK IPAs operate on the same fundamental principles as many other spoken dialogue systems …

A Multipurpose Goal Model for Personalised Digital Coaching
JC Nieves, H Lindgren – Agents and Multi-Agent Systems for …, 2017 – books.google.com
… A method for generating multipurpose arguments relating to different motives were developed, and implemented in a human-agent dialogue system … i-nodes are treated as statements in the dialogue, and literals in the logic implemented in the dialogue system …

Low-resource Multi-task Audio Sensing for Mobile and Embedded Devices via Shared Deep Neural Network Representations
P Georgiev, S Bhattacharya, ND Lane… – Proceedings of the ACM …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… device to interpret and react to the user and environment in support of applications like health care, automation assistants and smart homes … as all commands should begin with the same key word); and, (iii) speech recognition, along with additional dialog system analysis that …

Cognitive Radio Networks for Smart Grid Communications
D Kogias, G Tuna, V Cagri – Smart Grid: Networking, Data …, 2017 – books.google.com
… Smart homes, with the use of sensors, are a step toward this direction and CRN can be used to enhance performance by allowing … CREAM-MAC uses a four-way dialogue system consisting of RTS, CTS, channel-state-transmitter (CST), and channel-state-receiver (CSR) and …

Information Technology and the US Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and … – 2017 – books.google.com
Page 1. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is availableathttp://www. nap.edu/24649 SHARE ? ? ? ? Information Technology and the US Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here? DETAILS 198 …

Data as a Means: Designing and Developing” Smart” Product Experiences
RR Jansen – 2017 – essay.utwente.nl
… How different is that today. ”smart” products in the areas of wearables, building and home automation, ”smart” cities, health care, ”smart” manufacturing, and automotive are predominant today [21] and show the diversity in kinds of ”smart” products available. 4 Page 9 …

Inferring Intentions Through State Representations In Cooperative Human-Robot Environments
C SCHLENOFF – hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
Page 1. HAL Id: tel-01172004 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01172004 Submitted on 6 Jul 2015 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not …

Poster Chair
T Van Rompay – … and implementation of personalized technologies to … – ris.utwente.nl
… The present work is based on the development of an e-health platform characterized by a smart home system to … Persuasive Dialogue System for Energy Conservation Jean-Baptiste Corrégé1, Céline Clavel1, Nicolas Sabouret1, Emmanuel Hadoux2, Anthony Hunter2, & Mehdi …

Computational models for semantic textual similarity
A González Aguirre – 2017 – addi.ehu.es
… These measures of equivalence of meaning are useful for many tools, for ex- ample the well-known Siri, iOS’ personal assistant, or to evaluate voice com- mands in a home automation system, so that the house can deduce that the sen- tence ‘I need more light’ can mean ‘Raise …

Neural Logic Framework for Digital Assistants
N Cingillioglu, A Russo, K Broda – 2017 – imperial.ac.uk
… anticipating most commands. This situation resurfaces in many other specific voice command natural language interfaces such as smart home applications. • The user is restricted to certain commands and needs to know which ones trigger the correct actions …

Speech recognition using articulatory and excitation source features
KS Rao, KE Manjunath – 2017 – books.google.com
… of the topics covered in this series include the presentation of real life commercial deployment of spoken dialog systems, contemporary methods … PRS has a wide range of applications in domains such as health care, military, telephony, dictation, robotics, and home automation …

Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
D Tenen – 2017 – books.google.com
… Smart phones, smart lightbulbs, smart thermostats, smart homes, and smart watches enter the networked public sphere in the role of independent agents.23 A conversation begins about their personhood: their levels of trust, friendships, rights, and

Day Workshop Towards Intelligent Social Robots: Social Cognitive Systems in Smart Environments
A Aly, S Griffiths, V Nitsch, T Taniguchi, S Wermter… – 2017 – researchgate.net
… Learning with Embodied Dialogue System … To achieve this aim, we present an embodied dialogue system which enables a humanoid to take on an active role during learning by guiding its user with verbal communication and through the display of emotions …

Mood controlled affective ambiences for the elderly
P Willems – 2017 – essay.utwente.nl
Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Abstract 3 Abstract The goal of this research is to develop an ambient lighting system that is controlled by the mood of a user. The ambient lighting system uses the physiological data of the user to intervene when necessary …